Optica

Papers
(The median citation count of Optica is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Stimulated emission does not radiate in a pure dipole pattern283
Field-conjugate adaptive optics enables extended field-of-view microendoscopy for deep brain imaging189
High-resolution long-range swept-source OCT for volumetric imaging and metrology up to 200  m166
Universal mask for hard x rays155
Active laser cooling of a centimeter-scale torsional oscillator136
Hyperspectral in-memory computing with optical frequency combs and programmable optical memories129
Fast shaping control of x ray beams using a closed-loop adaptive bimorph deformable mirror121
Monolithic piezoelectrically tunable hybrid integrated laser with sub-fiber laser coherence114
Data encryption with chaotic light in the long wavelength infrared atmospheric window111
Compressive hyperspectral Raman imaging via randomly interleaved scattering projection107
Mask3D-compatible full-vectorial Hopkins imaging for lithographic modeling103
Velocity-based optoretinography for clinical applications100
Transparent organic photodiodes for high-detectivity CMOS image sensors99
Modeling off-axis diffraction with the least-sampling angular spectrum method96
Dissipative Kerr solitons in integrated Fabry–Perot microresonators95
All-step-index-fiber spatiotemporally mode-locked laser86
Ultrasensitive Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker Detection with Nanopillar Photonic Crystal Biosensors85
Entanglement swapping with spatially multiplexed modes in an atomic-ensemble quantum memory in a single excitation regime85
X-ray dark-field via spectral propagation-based imaging83
Anisotropically multiplanar-focal photon-sieve splitter from extreme ultraviolet to soft X-ray82
Estimation of a parameter encoded in the modal structure of a light beam: a quantum theory79
Collaborative publication of related articles puts focus on emerging topics: editorial77
Coordinated international comparisons between optical clocks connected via fiber and satellite links77
Deterministic photonic quantum computation in a synthetic time dimension76
Ultra-widely tunable high-power terahertz parametric generation based on synchronized sub-nanosecond pump and nanosecond seeder75
Computational imaging with meta-optics74
On-Chip Backward Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Lithium Niobate Waveguides72
Dual-frequency-comb UV spectroscopy with one million resolved comb lines70
Nonlinear integrated quantum photonics with AlGaAs69
Fabrication-integrated design for diffractive optical elements67
Cryogenic feedforward of a photonic quantum state64
On-demand harnessing of photonic soliton molecules64
Topological quantum walk in synthetic non-Abelian gauge fields with optical mesh lattices61
GHz guided optomechanics in planar semiconductor microcavities60
Large circular dichroism in the emission from an incandescent metasurface60
Efficient parametric down-conversion by gain-trapped solitons58
Better than a lens? Increasing the signal-to-noise ratio through pupil splitting58
Driven-dissipative phases and dynamics in non-Markovian nonlinear photonics57
Article withdrawn57
Robust method for certifying genuine high-dimensional quantum steering with multimeasurement settings57
Wide-field bond-selective fluorescence imaging: from single-molecule to cellular imaging beyond video rate57
Experimental adaptive Bayesian estimation for a linear function of distributed phases in photonic quantum networks57
Near-field imaging of dipole emission modulated by an optical grating55
Reconfigurable photon localization by coherent drive and dissipation in photonic lattices54
X-ray phase-contrast microtomography of soft tissues using a compact laboratory system with two-directional sensitivity54
Pound–Drever–Hall feedforward: laser phase noise suppression beyond feedback54
Free-space coupled superconducting nanowire single-photon detector with low dark counts53
Parallel photonic accelerator for decision making using optical spatiotemporal chaos52
Distinguishing under- and over-coupled resonances without prior knowledge51
Higher-dimensional symmetric informationally complete measurement via programmable photonic integrated optics51
Quantum-enhanced stimulated Brillouin scattering spectroscopy and imaging51
Top-down convergence of near-infrared photonics with silicon substrate-integrated electronics50
Demonstration of high-power photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers with 1-kHz-class intrinsic linewidths: erratum50
Electro-optic transduction in silicon via gigahertz-frequency nanomechanics50
Highly polarized emission from organic single-crystal light-emitting devices with a polarization ratio of 17649
Coherent control in quartz-enhanced photoacoustics: fingerprinting a trace gas at ppm-level within seconds49
Semi-device-independent certification of indefinite causal order in a photonic quantum switch49
Trends in relativistic laser–matter interaction: the promises of structured light49
Sum-of-squares bounds on surface-enhanced Raman scattering49
Photonic origami of silica on a silicon chip with microresonators and concave mirrors48
Planar wide-angle-imaging camera enabled by metalens array48
Deep-learning based image reconstruction for MRI-guided near-infrared spectral tomography48
Near-unity excess noise factor of staircase avalanche photodiodes47
Supercontinua from integrated gallium nitride waveguides47
Optimal input excitations for suppressing nonlinear instabilities in multimode fibers47
Global phase diagram of bound states in the continuum46
Overcoming the diffraction limit by exploiting unmeasured scattering media46
100  GHz bandwidth, 1 volt integrated electro-optic Mach–Zehnder modulator at near-IR wavelengths46
Determination of stress waves and their effect on the damage extension induced by surface defects of KDP crystals under intense laser irradiation45
Deep multiband photodetectors enabled by reconfigurable band alignment in van der Waals heterostructures45
High-speed 4D fluorescence light field tomography of whole freely moving organisms45
Microcavity platform for widely tunable optical double resonance44
Experimental demonstration of continuous-variable measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution over optical fiber44
Transient light shift register mechanism of bi-chromatic pulse generation43
Intensity-preserving self-similar beams43
Cryogenic integrated spontaneous parametric down-conversion43
High-resolution and sensitivity bi-directional x-ray phase contrast imaging using 2D Talbot array illuminators43
Transverse mode control in quantum enhanced interferometers: a review and recommendations for a new generation43
Compact and scalable polarimetric self-coherent receiver using a dielectric metasurface42
3D sympathetic cooling and detection of levitated nanoparticles42
On the applicability of Kirchhoff’s law to the lasing regime42
Interferometric diffusing wave spectroscopy imaging with an electronically variable time-of-flight filter41
Full-color-sorting metalenses for high-sensitivity image sensors41
Low-cost electrothermally actuated MEMS mirrors for high-speed linear raster scanning41
Massively multiplexed wide-field photon correlation sensing41
Silicon photonic neuromorphic accelerator using integrated coherent transmit-receive optical sub-assemblies40
T staging esophageal tumors with x rays40
Seeded stimulated X-ray emission at 5.9  keV39
2D material platform for overcoming the amplitude–phase tradeoff in ring resonators39
Idealized four-wave mixing dynamics in a nonlinear Schrödinger equation fiber system39
Chiral topological add–drop filter for integrated quantum photonic circuits39
Transportable single-crystal silicon ultra-stable cavity toward space applications39
Low-loss integration of high-density polymer waveguides with silicon photonics for co-packaged optics38
Ultrafast plasma-based terahertz modulator37
Transport-of-intensity Fourier ptychographic diffraction tomography: defying the matched illumination condition37
Integrated-waveguide-based acousto-optic modulation with complete optical conversion37
Single photon multiclock lock-in detection by picosecond timestamping37
Optical simulation of a quantum cooling engine powered by entangled measurements36
Spin–orbit photonic diode from biomimetic 3D chiral liquid crystal architectures36
In situ tuning of optomechanical crystals with nano-oxidation36
Simultaneous spectral recovery and CMOS micro-LED holography with an untrained deep neural network36
Metasurface-tunable lasing polarizations in a microcavity35
Third-harmonic generation monitoring of femtosecond-laser-induced in-volume functional modifications35
Experimental investigation of a non-Abelian gauge field in 2D perovskite photonic platform35
Achromatic arbitrary polarization control in the terahertz band by tunable phase compensation35
Self-evolving ghost imaging35
Integrated quantum communication network and vibration sensing in optical fibers35
Photonic and electrochemical biosensors for near-patient tests–a critical comparison34
Topological spin defects of light33
Automatic mitigation of dynamic atmospheric turbulence using optical phase conjugation for coherent free-space optical communications33
Multiscale characterization of myelin distribution with polarized THG microscopy33
Quantitative infrared spectroscopy of aerosols: Mie theory modeling with experimental validation32
Error-mitigated photonic variational quantum eigensolver using a single-photon ququart32
Three-dimensional terahertz near-field imaging evaluation of cochlea32
Unveiling the evolution of light within photonic integrated circuits32
Enhanced penetration depth in optical coherence tomography and photoacoustic microscopy in vivo enabled by absorbing dye molecules32
Soliton-pair dynamical transition in mode-locked lasers32
Shaping polarization within an ultrafast laser pulse using dielectric metasurfaces32
Back action evasion in optical lever detection31
Integrated chirped photonic-crystal cavities in gallium phosphide for broadband soliton generation31
Period-doubled Floquet solitons31
Half-wavelength-pitch silicon optical phased array with a 180° field of view, high sidelobe suppression ratio, and complex-pattern beamforming31
Ultra-intense femtosecond laser interactions with aligned nanostructures31
Generation of squeezed quantum microcombs with silicon nitride integrated photonic circuits30
Flat magic window30
Adaptive point-scan imaging beyond the frame rate–resolution limit with scene-reactive scan trajectories30
Metamaterial engineered silicon photonic coupler for whispering gallery mode microsphere and disk resonators30
Quantum optical memory for entanglement distribution30
Diffraction-gated real-time ultrahigh-speed mapping photography30
Low threshold mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in GaAs0.51Sb0.49/InP waveguides30
Phase noise matching in resonant metasurfaces for intrinsic sensing stability29
Simultaneous multi-plane imaging light-sheet fluorescence microscopy for simultaneously acquiring neuronal activity at varying depths29
Laboratory soft X-ray setup for transient absorption experiments in the liquid phase using a laser-produced plasma source29
Observation of a triangular-lattice pattern in nonlinear wave mixing with optical vortices29
Structuring light waves in 3D volumes with high precision using communication mode optics29
Non-mechanical three-dimensional LiDAR system based on flash and beam-scanning dually modulated photonic crystal lasers29
Adaptive time modulation technique for multiplexed on-chip particle detection across scales29
Spatiotemporal refraction of light in an epsilon-near-zero indium tin oxide layer: frequency shifting effects arising from interfaces28
Ultra-high numerical aperture waveguide-integrated meta beam shaper28
In vitro and in vivo NIR fluorescence lifetime imaging with a time-gated SPAD camera28
Interferometric phase stability from Gaussian and space–time light sheets28
Energy–time ptychography for one-dimensional phase retrieval28
Online learning of the transmission matrix of dynamic scattering media28
Purcell-enhanced, directional light–matter interaction in a waveguide-coupled nanocavity28
Photonic neural field on a silicon chip: large-scale, high-speed neuro-inspired computing and sensing27
Scalable machine learning-assisted clear-box characterization for optimally controlled photonic circuits27
Inverse problem solver for multiple light scattering using modified Born series27
MEMS-integrated metasurfaces for dynamic linear polarizers27
Ultrafast temporal phase-resolved nonlinear optical spectroscopy in the molecular frame27
Fast implicit diffusive dark-field retrieval for single-exposure, single-mask x-ray imaging27
Revealing the embedded phase in single-pixel quantum ghost imaging26
Anisotropic quantum transport in a programmable photonic topological insulator26
Transient field-resolved reflectometry at 50–100  THz26
Fluorescence matrix–vector multiplication: realization of in-memory-display computing26
Tailoring ultrahigh index plasmonic combinatorial metamaterials for SEIRA and SERS by tuning the fill fraction26
Quantitative nonlinear optical polarimetry with high spatial resolution26
Non-diffracting polarization features around far-field zeros of electromagnetic radiation26
Universal programmable and self-configuring optical filter26
Scaled local gate controller for optically addressed qubits25
Non-redundant optical phased array: erratum25
Multi-pass cells for post-compression of ultrashort laser pulses25
Fluorescent wavefront shaping using incoherent iterative phase conjugation25
Monolithic deformable mirror based on lithium niobate single crystal for high-resolution X-ray adaptive microscopy25
Phase-cycling and double-quantum two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy using a common-path birefringent interferometer25
Approaching the thermal emissivity limit with ultrathin MXene films25
Optical-parametric oscillation in photonic-crystal ring resonators25
Design and single-shot fabrication of lensless cameras with arbitrary point spread functions25
Partially coherent diffractive optical neural network24
Realization of an integrated coherent photonic platform for scalable matrix operations24
GHz repetition rate mid-infrared frequency comb spectroscopy of fast chemical reactions24
Exceptional points with memory in a microcavity Brillouin laser24
High-fidelity ptychographic imaging of highly periodic structures enabled by vortex high harmonic beams24
Unbalanced-basis-misalignment-tolerant measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution24
Hyperentanglement quantum communication over a 50  km noisy fiber channel24
Demonstration of universal time-reversal for qubit processes23
In situ high-harmonic microscopy of a nanostructured solid23
High-speed ultra-broadband detection based on an interfacial work function internal photoemission detector23
Ultrafast modulation of terahertz waves using on-chip dual-layer near-field coupling23
Strain-concentration for fast, compact photonic modulation and non-volatile memory23
Experimental investigation of the angular symmetry of optical force in a solid dielectric23
Single-shot spontaneous Raman scattering for time-resolved one-dimensional hypersonic flow diagnostics23
High-speed detection of 1550  nm single photons with superconducting nanowire detectors23
Probing electron-hole coherence in strongly driven 2D materials using high-harmonic generation23
Spectral synthesis of multimode lasers to the Fourier limit in integrated Fabry–Perot diamond resonators23
Modular chip-integrated photonic control of artificial atoms in diamond waveguides22
Silicon-based integrated polarization-independent magneto-optical isolator22
Multislice computational model for birefringent scattering22
Hybrid training of optical neural networks22
Mono-drive single-sideband modulation via optical delay lines on thin-film lithium niobate22
Real-time two-photon interference from distinct molecules on the same chip22
Phase retrieval framework for direct reconstruction of the projected refractive index applied to ptychography and holography22
Quantum-enhanced phase imaging without coincidence counting22
Nanoscale dark-field imaging in full-field transmission X-ray microscopy22
Probing neuronal functions with precise and targeted laser ablation in the living cortex: comment21
High-rate 16-node quantum access network based on a passive optical network21
Electro-optic sampling of classical and quantum light21
Coulomb coupling between two nanospheres trapped in a bichromatic optical tweezer21
Efficient simulation of ultrafast quantum nonlinear optics with matrix product states21
Ptychographic characterization of spatiotemporal wavepackets21
High-efficiency high-numerical-aperture metalens designed by maximizing the efficiency limit21
On-chip unitary generation of arbitrary complex spatial photonic states21
On-chip interference of scattering from two individual molecules21
Scalable low-latency optical phase sensor array21
Virtual orbital angular momentum-based phase clock21
Geophysical sensing using Jones matrices extracted from submarine optical cables transceivers carrying live traffic21
Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction of synchrotron radiation21
Gaussian random field generator for simulating partially coherent undulator radiation20
Mono-cycle terahertz pulses from intersubband shift currents in asymmetric semiconductor quantum wells20
High-gain optical parametric amplification with a continuous-wave pump using a domain-engineered thin-film lithium niobate waveguide20
Small-sized, ultra-low phase noise photonic microwave oscillators at X-Ka bands20
Spin-multiplexed metasurface inverse-design based on a bi-directional deep neural network for terahertz wavefront control20
Coherent dynamics in an optical quantum dot with phonons and photons20
Dose-efficient automatic differentiation for ptychographic reconstruction20
Heterogeneous integration of a high-speed photodiode with microcavity solitons for on-chip mmWave generation20
High-temporal-resolution X-ray spectroscopy with free-electron and optical lasers20
Selective tumor ablation via femtosecond laser resonant with collagen20
OFDM-Based Quantum Key Distribution Access Network Reaching Nyquist Limits20
Optical tomography reconstructing 3D motion and structure of multiple-scattering samples under rotational actuation20
Two-photon pumped exciton-polariton condensation20
Gratings weave coherence carpets with non-diffracting coherence strands20
Exceptional refrigeration of motions beyond their mass and temperature limitations20
Terahertz imaging through emissivity control20
Beam combining of high-power terahertz lasers with semiconductor metasurface gratings20
Phase-diversity-based wavefront sensing for fluorescence microscopy19
All-glass miniature GHz repetition rate femtosecond laser cavity19
Quantitative blood flow estimation in vivo by optical speckle image velocimetry: publisher’s note19
Encrypted optical information in nonlinear chaotic systems uncovered using neural networks19
Unlocking freeform optics design for extended light sources19
Deep photonic reservoir computing recurrent network19
Dynamic control of photon lifetime for quantum random number generation19
Generation and applications of spectral-spatially correlated principal mode in multimode fibers19
Synthetic spatial aperture holographic third harmonic generation microscopy19
Giant terahertz polarization rotation in ultrathin films of aligned carbon nanotubes: publisher’s note19
High-definition (HD) snapshot diffractive computational spectral imaging and inferencing19
Waveguide-multiplexed photonic matrix–vector multiplication processor using multiport photodetectors18
Sub-60-nm isotropic 3D super-resolution microscopy through self-interference field excitation18
Year-long optical time scale with sub-nanosecond capabilities18
Hacking measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution18
Distributed chemical detection outside standard coated fibers using Brillouin optical time-domain analysis of cladding mode spectra18
Observation of interband Kelly sidebands in coupled-ring soliton microcombs18
High orbital angular momentum lasing with tunable degree of chirality in a symmetry-broken microcavity18
Angle- and polarization-resolved luminescence from suspended and hexagonal boron nitride encapsulated MoSe2 monolayers18
Asymmetric phase modulation of light with parity-symmetry broken metasurfaces18
Ultra-broadband magneto-optical isolators and circulators on a silicon nitride photonics platform18
Widely FSR tunable high Q-factor microresonators formed at the intersection of straight optical fibers18
Micro-optics fabrication using blurred tomography18
Curve-shaped ultrashort laser pulses with programmable spatiotemporal behavior18
Valley control by linearly polarized laser pulses: example of WSe218
Observation of spin precession resonance in a stirred quantum fluid of light18
Robust and adaptable quantum key distribution network without trusted nodes18
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